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The Oil Drum | Twenty (Important) Concepts I Wasn't Taught in Business School - Part I
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The above graphic shows a three-tiered time history of our planet, starting with the top black line being geologic time. The tiny black sliver on the far right, is enlarged in the second line, and the sliver on its far right is again enlarged on the bottom line, where the last 12,000 years are shown. We, both our environment, and ourselves, are products of this evolutionary history. Our true wealth originates from energy, natural resources and ecosystem services, developed over geologic time. Our true behavioral drivers are a product of our brains being sculpted and honed by 'what worked' in all 3 eras of this graph (but mostly the top 2). The dark line on the bottom is human population, but just as well could be economic output or biomass/fossil fuel use, as they have been highly correlated over this period. The circle "A" indicates the part of the timeline where our economic theory of borrowing and investing into continous explosive growth was formed.
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